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Is there any special feature of tarsnap that I'm overlooking, or is it just another kid down the block?

Be original. If you want something unconventional, you'll have to make it happen. Here is some inspiration: http://www.socialmediajobs.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...

I've recently released a new version of HN Comment Embed, a greasemonkey script that embeds HN discussions into the webpage being discussed.

You simply browse to a posted page, and the HN panel pops up on the side.

This version relies on searchYC as its main source, but also parses HN's newest posts page to attain full coverage.

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

Hey, hey, speech recognition is really here. In fact, I ham dict eating too the come pewter write now.

It's easy to call the shots from the audience. TechCrunch is judging this by Disney over-romanticized standards - self fulfillment et al.

TechCrunch does not have access to the founders' cockpit view. What if the founders decide the company is about to become stagnated, overrun or just boring? If they can get a good price it's not worth the stay.

Foursquare opens a whole spectrum of indirect interaction between business owners and their clientèle. The game mechanics are little more than a usability technique.

Actually, this makes perfect sense. The sales data at any given point of time is given as a percentage of the baseline, which is set at Q1 '03.

I'm also Israeli. I completely agree, and would like to add another insight:

The Israeli security ring is built around human credibility, while the US focuses on the physical aspect of security.

From the article:

"the security set-up at Israel's largest hub, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, has not been breached since 2002, when a passenger mistakenly carried a handgun onto a flight."

The handgun would have been detected on a US flight because screening would be done more thoroughly. The person forgot about the handgun, and thus came out completely credible to Israeli security. This is just like undergoing a polygraph.

And if you think about it, it makes sense in a way. This particular person wouldn't use the handgun, so why bother screening it?

I'm not happy by Google's dominance of search & email, and yet it is there.

Here the matter is even worse due to the network effect: if most of your friends are using facebook's social tagging service, you'd have to be connected to it one way or the other.

This is a well-targeted advertisement. Too bad they couldn't find some real use for such a box, e.g. A handy dock station for the phone.